Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-5bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 9 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.4 B
Context
30d
4.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
lmstudio-community · B
Params
5.5 B
Context
30d
3.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-5bit
Parameters 4.4 B 5.5 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,105,723 3,639,520
Downloads all time 25.9 M 3.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2026-08-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 44 days (28 Jul – 9 Sep)

4.1 M943 K
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-5bit

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16 10.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-5bit · fp16 22.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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